Gale attains certified status as a Google for Education Partner, integrates Google tools into Gale products - July 1, 2015
Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, has announced its certified status as a Google for Education Partner, and the integration of Google tools into Gale products. Users will now be able to seamlessly login to their school or library's Gale In Context resource using Google Account… Read More
EBSCO and the H. W. Wilson Foundation expand partnership to build an open dissertations database - June 29, 2015
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and the H.W. Wilson Foundation are expanding their partnership with the goal of making searching for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) easier and more open. In 2014, the two organisations created American Doctoral Dissertations™ which contains indexing from the H.W. Wilson… Read More
Ex Libris and EBSCO Information Systems in deal to enable more streamlined journal and ebook acquisition workflows - June 26, 2015
Library automation services provider Ex Libris Group and EBSCO Information Systems (EBSCO), a library technology, content and services provider have announced an agreement to streamline libraries' acquisition processes and optimise the experience of library patrons who are using Ex Libris solutions to… Read More
Springer acquires three OA journals from the Max Planck Society - June 25, 2015
STM publisher Springer has acquired the three pioneering 'living' open access journals: Living Reviews in Relativity (impact factor 19.25), Living Reviews in Solar Physics (impact factor 17.64) and the recently launched journal Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics from the Max Planck Society. Furthermore, Springer has acquired… Read More
Taylor & Francis Group acquires Maney Publishing - June 25, 2015
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group has acquired Maney Publishing. Maney's high-quality portfolio consists of scholarly journals in Materials Science and Engineering, the Humanities and Social Sciences, and Health Sciences. Maney's book series will also be joining Taylor & Francis Group. Taylor & Francis Group is… Read More
Zynx Health and McKesson partner to optimise order set deployment - June 25, 2015
Evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement solutions provider Zynx Health has announced the release of an exclusive integration between ZynxOrder® and Paragon® Hospital Information System release 13 from McKesson that makes order set management easy through automated content synchronization. This intuitive solution eliminates common integration challenges including… Read More
Thieme named official publisher of World Society of Child Science’s pediatric journals - June 25, 2015
Thieme Stuttgart has announced that it is now the official publisher of seven quarterly subscription pediatric journals from the World Society of Child Science. The journals cover a range of areas that are essential reading for the pediatric professional. World Society of Child Science journals… Read More
SAGE, Credo, Gale, and IEEE publically disclose their support for the Open Discovery Initiative - June 24, 2015
In the cooperative spirit of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), four leading academic content providers - Credo; Gale, a part of Cengage Learning; IEEE; and SAGE - publically disclosed their support for the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI).… Read More
National consortium for ORCID set to improve UK research visibility and collaboration - June 24, 2015
ORCID, a researcher identifier solution which enables a wide range of improvements to the scholarly communications ecosystem, will now be offered to UK higher education institutions through a national consortium arrangement operated by Jisc. The agreement, negotiated by Jisc Collections, will enable universities to benefit… Read More
Italy to implement ORCID on a national scale, signs three-year consortium membership agreement - June 23, 2015
The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced that Italy will be implementing ORCID on a national scale, and has signed a three-year consortium membership agreement with ORCID. Under the auspices of ANVUR and CRUI (the Conference of Italian University Rectors), 70 universities and… Read More
